Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951) is an American sculptor and figurative painter. Bourgeois has been called one of the new "visionary imagists".
Life Bourgeois was born in Gonzales, Louisiana and grew up in St. Amant, Louisiana. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University in 1974.
Collections Bourgeois' work is held in the following collections: the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles),http://www.weismanfoundation.org/pdf/Weisman%201113v4.pdf Under the Influence of Finance•Fashion - Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation - December 15, 2013-February 16, 2014 - Carnegie Art Museum The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, GA), the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC).Arthur Roger Gallery
Bibliography Arthur Roger Gallery, Douglas Bourgeois, New Orleans, Arthur Roger Gallery, 1994 Bourgeois, Douglas, Dan Cameron, Estill Curtis Pennington, David S. Rubin and Jay Weigel, Baby-boom Daydreams, the Art of Douglas Bourgeois, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 2003 Delehanty, Randolph, Art in the American South, Works from the Ogden Collection, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, p. 225.
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